{"id":422928,"date":"2011-05-12T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/12\/eiu-identifies-a-shift-in-ghana%e2%80%99s-international-relations\/"},"modified":"2011-05-12T18:30:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:30:21","slug":"eiu-identifies-a-shift-in-ghanas-international-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/12\/eiu-identifies-a-shift-in-ghanas-international-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"EIU identifies a shift in Ghana\u2019s international relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>The United Kingdom Economist Intelligence<br \/>Unit (EIU) Country Report for May 2011 on Ghana identified a shift in<br \/>Ghana\u2019s international relations.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of the report made available to the Ghana News Agency in<br \/>Accra on Thursday indicates that the recent development of links with<br \/>China, backed by concessional Chinese funding for infrastructure<br \/>projects, has led to a shift in emphasis in Ghana\u2019s international<br \/>relations.<\/p>\n<p>However, it noted that government would continue to maintain good<br \/>relations with Ghana\u2019s major trading partners and donors, especially<br \/>the United States of America and the United Kingdom both of which have<br \/>a large Ghanaians in the Diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>On Ghana\u2019s relations with other West African States, the EIU<br \/>report said the nation\u2019s traditionally strong relationship with<br \/>Nigeria would also continue, with Nigerian companies having a growing<br \/>presence in Ghana, although frictions over the large and increasing<br \/>number of Nigerians working in Ghana might intensify.<\/p>\n<p>It said Ghana faced a tricky problem in managing relations with<br \/>her crisis-hit neighbour, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana\u2019s relations with the new government are all the more<br \/>important given that their maritime border area is believed to contain<br \/>significant hydrocarbon resources,\u201d the report indicated.<\/p>\n<p>The EIU Report also revealed that progress on all fronts is<br \/>expected to be slowed down gradually as political manoeuvring ahead of<br \/>Election 2012 picks up pace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be exacerbated if Professor John Evans Atta Mills is<br \/>not elected as the NDC Presidential Candidate, as it would render him<br \/>a lame-duck President,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read this article:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The United Kingdom Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Report for May 2011 on Ghana identified a shift in Ghana\u2019s international relations. A copy of the report made available to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Thursday indicates that the recent development of links with China, backed by concessional Chinese funding for infrastructure projects, has led to a shift in emphasis in Ghana\u2019s international relations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-422928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EIU identifies a shift in Ghana\u2019s international relations - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/12\/eiu-identifies-a-shift-in-ghanas-international-relations\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"EIU identifies a shift in Ghana\u2019s international relations - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The United Kingdom Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Report for May 2011 on Ghana identified a shift in Ghana\u2019s international relations. 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